Acknowledgments
How to Read a Primary Source
Chapter 1: Latin America in the Age of Revolution (1789-1820s)
1.1 Toussaint L'Ouverture, Letter to the French Directory, November 5, 1797
1.2 Luca Almán, "The Siege of Guanajuato," Historia de Méjico, Vol. 1, 1849
1.3 Simón Bolívar, The Jamaica Letter, 1815
1.4 Simón Bolívar, Decree for the Emancipation of the Slaves, 2 June 1816
1.5 Augustin de Iturbide, The Plan of Iguala, February 24, 1821
1.6 William Miller, "Description of Battle of Ayacucho," 1828
1.7 Vicente Grez, Las Mujeres de la Independencia
1.8 Manuela Sáenz, Letter to the Colombian Ambassador, February 1827
1.9 Pedro I, Declaration of Brazilian Independence
Chapter 2: Latin America: Regionalism and Localism
2.1 Simon Bolivar, Letter to General Juan Jose Flores, 9 November 1830 ("Ploughing the Sea"); and Final
Proclamation of the Liberator (10 Dec, 1830)
2.2 Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism, Or, Life in the Argentine Republic in
the Days of the Tyrants, 1845
2.3 Décimas dedicated to Santa Anna's leg
2.4 James K. Polk, Texas, Mexico and Manifest Destiny
2.5 Domingos José Gonçalves de Magalhães, "Uprising in Maranhão, 1839-1840"
2.6 Anonymous, "A Report on Paraguay" The Morning Chronicle (London), August 23, 1824
Chapter 3: First Attempts at State Formation: The Liberal-Conservative Debate (1830-1875)
3.1 Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera, Letter to Pius IX, January 15, 1862
3.2 James Orton, The Andes and the Amazon: Or, Across the Continent of South America
3.3 Friedrich Hassaurek, Four Years Among the Ecuadorians, 1867
3.4 Juana Manuela Gorritti, "The Dead Man's Fiancée," 1865
3.5 William Walker, The War in Nicaragua, 1860
3.6 Cartoons depicting racial tensions in War of Triple Alliance
Chapter 4: Exclusion and Inclusion: Everyday People (1825-1880s)
4.1 Simon Bolivar, Decrees on Indian Rights, Land and Tribute, 1825
4.2 Thomas Ewbank, Life in Brazil, Or, A Journal of a Visit to the Land of Cocoa and the Palm
4.3 Newspaper advertisements for Black Wet Nurses, Brazil, 1821-1854
4.4 Miguel Barnet (ed.), Biography of a Runaway Slave
4.5 John L. Stephens, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatans, Vol. II
4.6 Florda Tristan, Peregrinations of a Pariah
4.7 Frances Calderon de la Barca, "Mexican Servants," Life in Mexico During a Residence of Two Years in that
Country, 1843
Chapter 5: Progress and Modernization: The Elite's Strategy (1870-1929)
5.1 Juan Bautista Alberdi, Immigration as a Means of Progress, 1853
5.2 The Cuba Commission Report on Chinese Indentured Workers of 1876
5.3 Pascual Coña, A Mapuche Chieftan Remembers "Pacification"
5.4 Teresa González de Fanning, Concerning the Education of Women
5.5 Frederick Upham Adams, The Conquest of the Tropics, 1914
5.6 West Indian Strike Committee, Limón, Costa Rica. Notice to West Indian Farmers!
5.7 Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Tabor Frost, The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan, 1909
5.8 W. E. Hardenburg, The Putumayo, The Devils Paradise, 1912
Chapter 6: Worlds Connecting: Latin America in an Imperial Age
6.1 Theodore Roosevelt, The Platt Amendment, 1902
6.2 Philippe Bunau-Varilla, Panama: The Creation, Destruction and Resurrection
6.3 Cartoons depicting U.S. racial stereotypes towards Latin America, 1899-1904
6.4 José Martí, "The Truth about the United States," 1894
6.5 Fanny Chambers Gooch Inglehart, Face to Face with the Mexicans
6.6 Luisa Capetillo, "Men's Opinion About Women and My Own," 1916
6.7 Photos of Belterra and Fordlandia, from Henry Ford Collection
Chapter 7: Progress and its Discontents (1880-1920)
7.1 Eucildes da Cunha, Rebellion in the Backlands
7.2 José Enrique Rodó, Ariel, 1900
7.3 Emiliano Zapata, The Plan of Ayala, 1911
7.4 The Mexican Constitution of 1917, Articles 3, 27 and 123
7.5 Alfonsina Storni, "An Old Story," 1919
7.6 Cuban Tourism Materials, 1920s
Chapter 8: The Depression and Authoritarian Populists (1930-1950)
8.1 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The Good Neighbor Policy, 1933
8.2 Lázaro Cárdenas, Messages to the Mexican Nation on the Oil Question, 1938
8.3 "A Landowner's Account of Peasant Rebellion in El Salvador, 1932"
8.4 Eyewitnesses to the Haitian Genocide of 1937
8.5 Joana de Masi Zero, "Life of a Factory Worker Under Vargas"
8.6 Magda Portal, Proletarian Song
8.7 Eva Perón, In My Own Words, 1952
8.8 Raúl Prebisch, A New Economic Model for Latin America, 1950
Chapter 9: The Challenges of Modernity (1930-1950)
9.1 Augusto Sandino, "To Abolish the Monroe Doctrine," 1933
9.2 Pedro Campos Albizu, Puerto Rican Nationalism
9.3 José Vasconcelos, The Cosmic Race, 1925
9.4 José Carlos Mariátegui, On the Indigenous Problem, 1928
9.5 Gilberto Freyre, The Masters and the Slaves, 1933
9.6 Nicolás Guillén, "Son Number 6," 1947
9.7 Alicia Moreau de Justo, "The Civil Emancipation of Women"
9.8 Fida Kahlo, Self Portrait Along the Border Line with Mexico and the United States, 1932
Chapter 10: Revolution and Reform in Latin America (1950-1980)
10.1 Bolivian Legislative Decree no. 03464 Relative to Agrarian Reform, August 2, 1953
10.2 Carolina Maria de Jesus, Child of the Dark, 1960
10.3 Abdias do Nascimento, The Myth of Racial Democracy, 1968
10.4 Fidel Castro, History Will Absolve Me, 1953
10.5 Che Guevara, Socialism and Man in Cuba, 1965
10.6 Régis Debray, "Conversations with Allende," The Chilean Revolution
10.7 Gustavo Gutierrez, A Theology of Liberation
10.8 Camilo Torres, Message to Christians
10.9 The Puerto Rican Woman: Object of Population Control, 1976
Chapter 11: Counter-Revolution in Latin America (1960-1980)
11.1 Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (Cabot)
11.2 Ernesto Cardenal, Somoza Unveils Somoza's Statue of Somoza at the Somoza Stadium, 1961
11.3 John F. Kennedy, The Alliance for Progress, 1961
11.4 The Brazilian Constitution of 1967
11.5 Elena Poniatowska, Massacre in Mexico
11.6 The U.S. Department of Defense, School of the Americas "Study Manual," Excerpts
11.7 "The Call to the March of Empty Pots and Pans," 1971
11.8 Peter Winn, Diary of a Coup, 1973
11.9 Maria and Matthew Posner, Circle of Love Over Death: Testimonies of the Mothers of the Plaza del Mayo
Chapter 12: The Late Cold War in Latin America (1970s-1990)
12.1 Margaret Randall, Sandino's Daughters: Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle, 1995
12.2 Maria da Silva Miguel, "The People is Poet," from The Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation,
1994
12.3 Victor Montejo and Victor Perera, Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village, 1995
12.4 Raymond Bonner, "Massacre of Hundreds Reported in Salvador Village," New York Times, January 27,
1982
12.5 Report of the Chilean Commission on Truth and Reconciliation, "The 1978-1990 Period"
12.6 The Chiquita Papers, SEC Deposition Papers Detailing Payments to Guerilla and Paramilitary Groups,
National Security Archives, Briefing Book, No. 586
12.7 "The Interview of the Century," El Diario interviews Chairman Gonzalo, 1988
12.8 Silvio Rodriguez Sings of the Special Period, 1999
Chapter 13: Neo-Liberalism and its Discontents (1980-2015)
13.1 Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Inaugural Address, 1995
13.2 Gary S. Becker, "Latin America Owes a Lot to Its Chicago Boys," 1997
13.3 Supreme Decree No. 355, Creation of the Commission on Truth and Reconciliation, Chile, April 25, 1990
13.4 Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional, "First Message from Lancandon Jungle," 1994
13.5 Alonso Salazar, Born to Die in Medellin, 1990
13.6 Carmen Naranjo Coto, "Women's Liberation from Servitude and Over-Protection," 1989
13.7 Suzana Sawyer, "Suing Chevron Texaco"
13.8 Gloria Anzaldúa, "To Live in the Borderlands Means You"
Chapter 14: New Identities, New Politics (1980-2016)
14.1 Rigoberta Menchú, I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
14.2 Jorge Esteves, "Ocama-Daca Taino (Hear Me, I am a Taino): Perspective of Jorge Estevez, a Taino from
the Dominican Republic"
14.3 Afro-Colombians and Law 70 of 1993
14.4 Evo Morales, "Towards a New World Order for Living Well," Address to the Summit of the Group of 77,
2014
14.5 Richard Gott, Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution
14.6 Michelle Bachelet Inaugural Address, 2006
